10 Facts About Ravensburg

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Ravensburg is a city in Upper Swabia in Southern Germany, capital of the district of Ravensburg, Baden-Wurttemberg.

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The Ravensburg stores sold oriental spices, Mediterranean wines and Bohemian ores.

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3.

Since Ravensburg was impoverished and depopulated after the Thirty Years' War, only a few new buildings were raised during the 18th and the early 19th century.

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4.

Ravensburg did not harbor any noteworthy arms industry, but was home to a major aid supplies center belonging to the Swiss Red Cross.

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5.

Ravensburg is a thriving shopping city in the wealthy region of Upper Swabia.

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6.

Ravensburg is part of an urban agglomeration that comprises Weingarten and several suburbs.

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7.

Ravensburg is located at a crossing of the federal roads B30, B31 and B32.

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8.

Today the primary engineering firms in Ravensburg are the left-overs of the former Escher-Wyss AG which are now subsidiaries of the Austrian "Andritz Hydro".

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City's association football club FV Ravensburg, formed in 1893, has played in the Oberliga Baden-Wurttemberg on three occasions from 1978 to 1983, from 1998 to 2000 and again since 2003.

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10.

From 2006 to 2010, Ravensburg hosted the Air Canada Cup or MLP Nations Cup, an international women's ice hockey tournament.

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